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Nomination of a workman for service on Trajan's River TM 21832OxyrhynchusA.D. 322

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A declaration by the village headmen (komarchs) of Sadalou and Nigrou in the Oxyrhynchite nome to the local officials, nominating and guaranteeing a workman, Aurelius Hatres son of Faboulos, sent for work on Trajan's River. Dated by the consuls of AD 332.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Papius Pacatianus, the most illustrious prefect, and Maecilius Hilarianus. To Flavius Hermeias, logistes, and Aurelius Achillion, defender (ekdikos), and Ptolemaios, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Heras son of S[…]ter, komarch of Sadalou, and Philistios son of Dionysios, komarch of Nigrou, in the 2nd pagus. We present, at our own risk, the workman assigned to our villages from among those being sent to the River of Trajan, on condition that he go down and fill the post, not abandoning it until he is released; and we of our own free will guarantee that he will perform the service so as to be blamed in nothing. He is Aurelius Hatres son of Faboulos, from the village of Nigrou, aged about […] years. […]

Trajan's River was the canal linking the Nile near Babylon (Old Cairo) with the Gulf of Suez. One record gives the date as AD 322, but the consuls named belong to AD 332.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Appointment of a Workman on Trajan’s River). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Appointment of a workman on Trajan's river

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE47480 · A.D. 322 · Oxyrhynchus

A return addressed by the comarchs of two villages to an interesting collocation of officials who had taken the place of the strategus and basilicogrammateus. At the end only the date giving the month and the signatures are missing. nominated was required for repairs of Trajan's …

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 332 · Oxyrhynchites

ὑπατείας Παπίου Πακατιανοῦ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἐπάρχου καὶ Μαικιλίου Ἱλαριανοῦ. Φλαουίῳ Ἑρμείᾳ λογιστῇ καὶ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀχιλλίωνι ἐκδίκῳ καὶ Πτολεμίῳ στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Ἡρᾶ Σ[…]τρος κωμάρχου Σαδάλου καὶ Φιλιστίου Διονυσίου κωμάρχου Νίγρου β πάγου. δίδομεν τῷ ἰδίῳ ἡμῶν κινδ…